Swiss-ease Makes Walkway System Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
The view from the penthouse apartments of The Visage in London’s Swiss Cottage, doesn’t come cheap. Prices start at £1.3m and rise to over £5m, but for this you get a Mary Poppins eye-view across the capitals smoking chimney tops, though alas, no Dick Van Dyke and a cheeky cockney wink! If you look a little closer however, you may notice a silvery glint from the expanded aluminium walkway as it criss-crosses the flat roof below.
EMC customer Allan Roofing are particularly proud of this project – one of London’s biggest mixed use projects of recent years – not only for the sheer volume of mesh used, but because it provided such a neat finish to such a prestigious project. Gavin Minnis, Procurement Manager for Allan Roofing comments “we are extremely pleased with all of the projects where the expanded metal walkway has been utilized, and will continue to use it as a fundamental component in future projects.”
He continues “We chose EMC product because of the obvious high quality and the fact that the standard sheet sizes fit our design perfectly. The systems are assembled off site, transported in 2.4m lengths (same as the sheets provided) and ‘clipped’ directly to the roof sheet, preventing unnecessary penetrations which undermine the roofs integrity”.
Allan Roofing have already used the system on many other high profile clients including Pfizer and Arsenal Football Club. Just some of the reasons for the popularity of this system are, Gavin explains, “it’s straightforward appearance, the fact it is ready for exterior use without any additional painting or preparation and it matches the Stucco/Mill aluminium roof finish, a very popular and appealing look within the roofing industry.”
Certainly, when Andy Foster and Deanne Malton of EMC’s marketing team visited site recently they were delighted with the quality of the work on display.
